November 3, 2008
Well, as you can see, I have been away from my blog.
Really, no good excuses, but plenty of reasons.
The economics of the country have also hit me a bit.
I work at home for as a webquiz project manager for a company that contracts with a very large textbook publishing company. It is an awesome job that I love and have done since 2003.
Over the years, they have bought and sold divisions of different companies. This year, they acquired another textbook division of a competing company. During the transition, things slowed immensely . . . to the point, I got really worried. Now, I live in a small town in northern NM and decent jobs are hard to come by so I have always counted my blessings for getting this job. This summer I was lucky enough to meet up with an attorney friend that I have known for many years. She needed some office help . . . specifically someone who was somewhat computer literate as she wanted some help organizing her office. I started working for her part time in September.
Surprisingly enough, even tho my other job has picked up some (but still not the hours I am used to), I am surprised to find out how much it is helping me mentally to get out of the house every day. The empty nesting has really hit me hard this time. I have decided that even if my computer job gets real busy again, I will just juggle jobs for as long as possible. Being an empty nester, it’s not like I have to be home and available to kids anymore.
On another note, we recently went to Phoenix to meet up with family. Most of my side of the family struggles with weight. My brother and his wife decided to go on WW in May. Whereas they stuck with it, I didn’t and they had both lost almost 35 lbs. They looked GREAT! Luckily, I have maintained the 13 lb. weight loss from earlier this summer, but if I just had stuck with it . . . maybe I would have been closer to where I want to be!
Ok, so here I go again . . .
I am finally going to read Judith Beck’s book and put it to use.
I have a niece getting married in December. My goal is to stay on plan until then.